Word: nissley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Nissley McNair, 68, fiddle-playing onetime mayor of Pittsburgh (1933-36), whose unstatesmanlike didos made a circus of municipal affairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. McNair once dismissed all violators of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Act ("They had committed no crime," he said, "except competing in the rotten liquor business with Governor Pinchot"), failed in a Cromwellian move to dissolve a newly elected city council, resigned in a huff when the council balked at confirming his appointees...
...Wilks, 3b 5 1 0 1 3 0 McKone, cf 4 2 2 3 0 0 Nelson, ss 5 1 1 4 4 3 Delaney, 1b 5 0 1 7 0 0 Gossler, 2b 3 1 2 2 0 0 Ross, 1f 4 0 0 3 0 1 Nissley, rf 4 0 0 4 0 1 Coughlin, c 3 0 2 3 2 0 Nichols, p 3 0 0 0 2 1 -- -- -- -- -- -- Totals...